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The Big Lead
April 4, 2018
Villanova fans were confident headed into Monday night's championship game against Michigan and that confidence was proven to be well-placed. The Wildcats obliterated the Wolverines over the final 30 minutes of play to capture the school's second national title in three years. One Villanova supporterÃâà...
MLive.com
April 4, 2018
FLINT, MI -- A burst of rain Tuesday afternoon in downtown Flint was accompanied by chunks of hail. ... A hazardous weather outlook from the National Weather Service for southeast Michigan called for hail and heavy downpours, but no large thunderstorms like southern Lower Michigan is forecast toÃâà...
MLive.com
April 4, 2018
FLINT, MI -- An accident Tuesday night has led to the closure of a portion of Pierson Road in Flint. A personal injury accident occurred around 9:30 p.m. April 3 in the 500 block of West Pierson Road, according to Genesee County 911, on the city's north end. Pierson Road is closed from Dupont Street toÃâà...
The Root
April 4, 2018
Bottled water can be seen on a gym floor in Flint, Mich., during a March 17, 2016, town hall meeting related to the lead-water crisis. ... and according to the results published by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, more than 4 percent of the water samples collected had elevated levels of lead.
WANE
April 3, 2018
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - - It has been nearly 4 years since Flint, Michigan made national headlines for its poor water quality. At the time, people all over the U.S. were stepping up to help. Those efforts have seemingly slowed down but a local man wants to make sure the people in that community knowÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
April 3, 2018
It's been four years since Flint's crisis began, and some residents still live without access to potable water, and the water at some schools still tests above the federal threshold some of the time. To provide students and others bottled water, the state of Michigan currently shells out $22,000 a day. Faizullah, aÃâà...
WIS
March 29, 2018
In 2014, Pauline saw coverage of the water issues in Flint, MI and a professor who helped to discover the issue. “The water was not meeting federal safe drinking water standards even when the city was telling everyone that is was and it was part of what exposed the Flint water crisis," Virginia TechÃâà...
Bridge Michigan
March 29, 2018
Hi, fam,” he said to another group strolling by. The chatter added to the din on a recent Saturday morning at the Michigan's second largest farmers' market. A fixture of downtown, the 7,652 square-foot Flint Farmers' Market hosts more than 50 indoor vendors year-around, along with kitchen demonstrationsÃâà...
MLive.com
March 29, 2018
FLINT, MI -- A man is in good condition at a local hospital after he was shot during a drive-by early Wednesday morning on the city's north side. Officers responded around 2:30 a.m. to the 5800 block of Winthrop Boulevard, between Home and Mott avenues, for a shooting and learned a person inside theÃâà...
MLive.com
March 29, 2018
FLINT, MI -- Undisclosed medical issues are keeping a key witness from appearing in the criminal case against Michigan's chief medical executive and putting the schedule for Dr. Eden Wells' preliminary examination on hold. Special prosecutor Todd Flood told Genesee District Court Judge WilliamÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 29, 2018
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A 2015 inspection report had warned that the Thread Lake Dam in Flint was in poor condition years before it breached during flooding last month. The Flint ... Records from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality show the report recommended the city address the issues.
The Detroit News
March 28, 2018
Rick Snyder aide is under fire for a text exchange he started with a Flint activist after the man criticized the governor's handling of the water crisis, telling .... more than $16,000 in property taxes and interest to settle a problem with his dual Michigan and Illinois residences after Democrats called for his firing.
MLive.com
March 28, 2018
FLINT, MI -- Michigan's chief medical executive has been charged with crimes related to the Flint water crisis, but a researcher has told a Genesee District Court judge that Dr. Eden Wells sought to "get to the truth of the matter." Virginia Tech professor Marc Edwards told Judge William Crawford Tuesday,Ãâà...
MLive.com
March 27, 2018
FLINT, MI -- A 22-year-old man is dead after he was shot Sunday evening on the city's north side and after the vehicle taking him to the hospital crashed a short time later. Flint police and Michigan State Police responded around 7:30 p.m. March 25 to the 300 block of West Eldridge Avenue for a shootingÃâà...
The Detroit News
March 27, 2018
The Flint water crisis began when the city's water supply was contaminated with lead in April 2014, when a state-appointed emergency manager switched the source of the city's drinking water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. When the move was made, the Michigan Department of EnvironmentalÃâà...
HuffPost
March 15, 2018
With the news cycle in hyperdrive ever since the inauguration of President Donald Trump (and even before that), it feels as though most Americans have forgotten about one of the most horrifying examples of government malfeasance and environmental racism in recent memory: the Flint Water Crisis.
Newsweek
March 14, 2018
The state of Michigan is still spending more than $22,000 per day on bottled water for Flint years after the lead water crisis began in the Midwestern city. Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) records show that the state from October through February has spent more than $22,000 a day onÃâà...
Big Ten Network
March 9, 2018
Recent research from Michigan State University details the abundance of food deserts in Flint, Michigan, a city whose population is still reeling from a devastating municipal water crisis. Rick Sadler, an assistant professor in the College of Human Medicine's Division of Public Health, used the NutritionÃâà...
MLive.com
March 1, 2018
FLINT, MI - A burst of snow and an expected thaw in the coming days will add to an uphill battle already being waged on Flint's roads by around two dozen city ... State legislators are working on passage of a bill that would pump $175 million to the Michigan Department of Transportation, with $38 millionÃâà...
MLive.com
March 1, 2018
FLINT, MI -- Police are investigating a homicide after a man was found down in the street on the city's east side. Investigators were dispatched at 2:51 a.m. on Thursday, March 1, to the 2200 block of Burns Street to reports of a man down on the sidewalk, according to the Michigan State Police. A man wasÃâà...
WDIV ClickOnDetroit
March 1, 2018
LANSING, Mich. - Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Calley's campaign director is turning down a $150,000 contract to help with Flint's economic development, saying doing both jobs would be a detriment to Flint and himself. Matthew Gibb declined the offer in a letter to Mayor Karen WeaverÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2018
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A documentary series detailing the struggles of Flint, Michigan, from the vantage point of police officers is launching on Netflix. ... Netflix says in a release the series aims to take "viewers to the streets of Flint" via the representatives of "the city's beleaguered police department.
MLive.com
February 27, 2018
FLINT, MI - One-third of the $3 million granted to Flint to boost the city's economic development will go toward the six-figure salaries of three people ... grant affects the city's budget, it must be added to the city's budget by RTAB before going into effect, explained Michigan Treasury Spokesperson Ron Leix.
Yahoo News
February 27, 2018
Bernie Sanders fulfilled a pledge he made during his 2016 presidential campaign and returned to the city of Flint, Mich., on Feb. ... The residents of Flint, which is the seventh-largest city in Michigan and has a predominantly African-American population, have been exposed to high levels of lead since theirÃâà...
MLive.com
February 27, 2018
FLINT, MI -- Special prosecutors have made their case to bind the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services over to Genesee Circuit Court for trial on charges related to the Flint water crisis, including two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Special prosecutor Todd Flood toldÃâà...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
For all of them, living in Flint, Michigan, is a story of the struggle to survive. The photographer Zackary Canepari is among the few outsiders with sustained interest in the internal rot of this American city. A native of Boston who now lives between New York and the Bay Area, he has been documenting life inÃâà...
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